The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt.
DOROTHY PARKER[On being shown an apartment by a real estate agent:] Oh, dear, that’s much too big. All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.
More Dorothy Parker Quotes
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I hate writing, I love having written.
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The only “ism” Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
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I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Drink and dance and laugh and lie, Love, the reeling midnight through, For tomorrow we shall die! (But, alas, we never do.)
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Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!
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There is entirely too much charm around, and something must be done to stop it.
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Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you.
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Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
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I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.
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Creativity is a wild mind and a disciplined eye.
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That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can’t say ‘No’ in any of them.
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Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.
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His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
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